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Case Study British Airways (BA) is in the final testing phase of its sophisticated IP network in Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5), ahead of its opening on 27 March. The Fast Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) - installed by communications partner Affiniti...
[08 Feb 2008]
News BA's chief information officer, Paul Coby, told silicon.com that hard bargaining with the business side of the airline was behind initiatives such as turning off redundant systems and cutting the number of printers.
[19 May 2003]
Case Study At the end of the 1990s, BA was spending more than £4bn per year with suppliers, processing in excess of 350,000 orders annually and processing more than half a million invoices. Speaking at an Ariba event in London, Tim Richardson, general manager...
[07 Mar 2007]
News According to BA manager for employee self-service (ESS), Allen Huish, the email system provided by CommuniGate Systems is part of an initiative that includes replacing a paper-based, pigeonhole system used to notify field workers of changes, with...
[31 Oct 2007]
News Speaking at silicon.com's CIO Forum conference Paul Coby, BA CIO and the UK's top CIO, said IT has transformed BA since 9/11 "and in the next six years it will do it again", adding: "That's why IT matters to BA.
[16 Oct 2007]
News A spokesman for BA said: "As each day goes by it gets a little better. BA claimed the failure stemmed from the crash of links connecting various systems, such as baggage handling, into the main departure control system.
[19 Mar 2001]
News BA introduced the swipe card system at Heathrow earlier this week following the wildcat strike by staff last weekend but talks aimed at resolving staff concerns with unions remain deadlocked. Paul Parry, spokesman for BA, told silicon.com the...
[25 Jul 2003]
News Along with other airlines, BA has had to deal with the collapse in the worldwide travel industry following the terrorist attacks in the US and the war in Iraq, as well as losses from wildcat strikes at Heathrow over a new swipecard clocking-in...
[29 Jul 2003]
News Speaking to silicon.com at the company's annual internal IT fair, BA CIO Paul Coby said new IT investment has been set at £85m for the current financial year - up from £65m in 2002. Coby outlined the next step for BA now that the cost saving...
[08 Sep 2004]
News BA has 20 vacancies on the programme, which is open to graduates of any discipline as long as they have the skills and desire to work in IT. It is the first time in six years BA has run a campaign to recruit graduate IT talent.
[23 Feb 2007]
News British Airways (BA) has completed a six-year SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout to computerise the maintenance system supporting the company's entire fleet of aircraft. BA claims EWS will improve accuracy in tracking and managing...
[20 Sep 2006]
News A problem at the hub of BA's global passenger and baggage-handling systems at Heathrow led to the network going down for two hours on Saturday morning. A BA spokesman told silicon.com: "The actual problem was fixed fairly quickly but it was the...
[08 Sep 2003]
News The move follows closely on the back of news earlier this year that BA is actually increasing its investment in IT as part of the company's customer-enabled BA (ceBA) strategy to turn the airline's fortunes around.
[12 Nov 2004]
News The rollout is expected to be complete by February next year, and is the latest part of the airline's 'customer enabled' BA programme that will use IT to transform how travellers do business with BA. Paul Coby, CIO at BA, said in a statement that...
[29 Oct 2003]
News British Airways (BA) is taking its first steps with service-oriented architecture (SOA) but warned that wider use could still be up to five years away. Speaking at BA's annual 'IT Fair' at the airline's Waterside headquarters near Heathrow this...
[19 Oct 2006]
News British Airways (BA) is borrowing a manufacturing concept originally developed by Toyota for the automotive sector in the 1970s to make its technology more "lean" for the future. BA CEO Willie Walsh claims "lean" technology and processes will be...
[18 Oct 2006]
News The former Indian offshore outsourcing unit of British Airways (BA) has raised more than $255m after completing its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). WNS, which reported $202.6m in revenue for the last year, was originally set up by BA as...
[04 Aug 2006]
News The airline is using the satellite imaging technology on www.ba.com to offer travellers info on tourist hotspots and details of hotels they can book through the website, by allowing them to zoom in on their destination.
[01 Sep 2006]
News Despite a company-wide senior management cull at BA, the airline will be increasing the 280 headcount in Newcastle by recruiting 30 staff in a variety of high-level roles ranging from project managers and business analysts to web design architects.
[07 Jun 2006]
News Paul Coby, CIO of British Airways, has told silicon.com the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 will signify the coming of age of BA and the completion of its transformation from a company that has been accused in the past of playing catch-up with more...
[21 Sep 2006]
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